Cabbage-cutting machine



' open box UNITED STATES FATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAVUS G. ELIAS, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

CABBAGE-CUTTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,173, dated November 22, 1859.

To all lwhom 'it may concam:

Be it known that I, GUsTAvUs G. ELIAS, of the city of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new Combinations and Improvements on Machines for Cutting Cabbage, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, illustrates the entire combination. Fig. 2, shows the double-coned-spiral spring K, on its bottom L, and top H, with its four arms t, 15, 7L, which iit into notches P, on the edge of the box C; I, shows the retaining plate partly over the double side notches P; N, is a flat spring against the outside of the box over its notch on the rear end. Fig. 3, shows the knives l, 2 and 2, l, in reversed positions so as to cut in both directions, with an intermediate plate or piece 3. B2, shows an arrangement of the knives without the intermediate piece 3.

To describe its operation, which is very simple and readily comprehended, since the C, with its sliding ledge M, in the groove 0, of the side pieces D, on the raised cutting table A, are not new, I however provide the box C, with a top and bottom L and I-I united by the double coned spiral spring K, which performs the oliice of hand pressure on the materials in the box, by pressing the arm h against the flat spring N, in its notch the other arms 15, will enter their respective notches, and the action of the spring N, will force the side arms under the retaining plates I, which keeps the top H, in place, while the bottom L, keeps up a constant pressure on the materials in the box, until exhausted, it is prevented from coming in contact with the knives by stay pegs in the bottom corners of the box c. This pressing lid is readily put on and off, as the box needs replenishing, and causes very little interruption to the cutting process, the labor is made easy by the application of a fly wheel E, with a turning handle, to which a pitman or crank rod F, is attached and carried to the box on one side, and on the other, a similar rod may be aflixed to the crank arm on the shaft of the wheel. This arrangement, is for certain considerations, preferable to having the crank in the shaft with a single rod to the front center of the box. The knives B being so placed, diagonally in the table A, as to cut both, when the box is drawn forward or pushed backward over them, this facilitates the operation, so laborious in the best constructed devices now in use, and is of especial service in some sections of our country for making sauer-krant, in large quantities. I am aware that there is no novelty in the crank attachment and liy wheel, but I am not aware that it was ever applied to a cabbage cutter.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The specific arrangement and combination of the sliding box C, with its notches P, flatspring N, and retaining plates I, the doubleconed-spiral spring K, with its square bottom L, and armed top H, the counter cutting knives l, 2, and central division 3, on the table A, provided with legs, fly wheel E, crank or connecting rods F, when these several parts are made substantially as and for the purpose speciied.

GUSTAVUS G. ELIAS. vWitnesses at signing- S. G. Mussna, JACOB STAUFFER. 

